From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, 24 August
Free entrance to Design Museum
See the museum’s excellent summer exhibitions free of charge on the Night of the Arts, with guided visits, workshops and meetings with designers. Special events in the shared courtyard area of Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Take a look at contemporary design in the exhibition Enter and Encounter – An Invitation to Tomorrow. Delve into the world of colours with Danish designer Margrethe Odgaard. Check out icons of design in our collections exhibition Utopia Now! The Story of Finnish Design.
PROGRAMME INSIDE THE MUSEUM:
Guided exhibition visits for the public
Enter and Encounter – An Invitation to Tomorrow
in Finnish at 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
in English at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Meet the designer: Demonstration of work by Deepa Panchamia from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
in the Enter and Encounter exhibition
A moment to wonder, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
New Biomateriality Lab, ChemArts, Aalto University
A look at material studies with the guidance of an expert.
Design workshop in Design Museum’s Studio: Colour Journal, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
What colour is a tram, a road after rain, a bilberry, a park bench or a museum building? Where are the colours that best describe your home town? The summer’s design workshops for families explore colours and create colour journals telling about their own home town. Take a journey into colours in the footsteps of Danish designer Margrethe Odgaard.
PROGRAMME IN THE COURTYARD:
The museums’ courtyard for events for people in Helsinki
Things are happening in the joint courtyard of the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum. The workshops in the courtyard invite visitors of all ages to work together with textiles and wood.
Fashion Revolution Finland’s Discarded Textile Workshop from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Give useless textiles a new life.
Guidance and supervision provided by Fashion Revolution Finland and Design Museum
Nest box workshop from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Build your own nest box. Next box materials for the first 70 visitors.
Supervised by Hesa-SAFA.
Hammer and nails – Build a Fantasy Dwelling from Wood
Build a wooden nest, dwelling, hut, lair…. whatever comes to mind. This workshop is for making dwellings of fantasy, for elves and sprites, hattifatteners or cuddly toys. The workshop is for visitors for all ages who can hold a hammer in their hands, but using the hammer requires the presence of a parent or guardian.
Supervised by the Museum of Finnish Architecture
Deepa Panchamia, 2017 Photo taken by Anni Koponen
